[PATCH 32/36] xf86/cursor: fallback to sw cursor if we have slaves present.

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 03:28:43 PDT 2012


On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>>
>> Current USB devices have no hw rendered cursors, so we need the
>> master GPU to render the cursor, so whenever we plug in a
>> slave device, fallback to sw rendered cursors.
>
> What about when we have a non-USB output slave that can do hw cursors?

We need to overhaul the cursor APIs from what I can see to enable any other
scenario, and I have this on my things to look at for 1.14 most likely,

Dave.


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